L’eros di Thanatos

L’eros di Thanatos

“the anxiety of redemption is present and palpable; it’s the same anxiety that slays the need to express themselves through strong images and deep desire to communicate the irrepressible arouse dreams that the flow of history attempts to stifle”. Daniele Nepi

Everything is born from a suggestion of Michelangelo, now elderly, owned by a lucid madness, asked to tell of his works, to talk, to walk with him, I have created him, I have given you life and now I want to hear your stories while accompanied me on my last journey “.” But while the desire to give life to objects, Michelangelo was limited to express it, “he adds,” I have wanted to realize: I photographed in black and white some great works of sculpture and, with the help of color, I revived some significant parts, especially hands outstretched in a desperate plea for help. With these shots I want those hands, those arms and those faces, they can fix in the eye of the viewer, with the hope to be extracted from a marble size and may throb like flesh that represent “………